About the Authors

Piotr Mydel

Contributed equally to this work with: Piotr Mydel, Yusuke Takahashi, Caroline Attardo Genco, Jan Potempa

¤ Current address: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland , Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Yusuke Takahashi

Contributed equally to this work with: Piotr Mydel, Yusuke Takahashi, Caroline Attardo Genco, Jan Potempa

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America , Department of Oral Microbiology, Kanagawa Dental College, Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan

Hiromichi Yumoto

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America , Department of Conservative Dentistry, The University of Tokushima, School of Dentistry, Tokushima, Japan

Maryta Sztukowska

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland , Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Malgorzata Kubica

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland

Frank C Gibson III

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Donald M Kurtz Jr.

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Center for Metalloenzyme Studies, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Jim Travis

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

L. Vincent Collins

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology and Inflammation Research, University of Göteborg, Göteborg, Sweden

Ky-Anh Nguyen

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Caroline Attardo Genco

Contributed equally to this work with: Piotr Mydel, Yusuke Takahashi, Caroline Attardo Genco, Jan Potempa

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: caroline.genco@bmc.org (CAG); potempa@uga.edu (JP)

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jan Potempa

Contributed equally to this work with: Piotr Mydel, Yusuke Takahashi, Caroline Attardo Genco, Jan Potempa

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: caroline.genco@bmc.org (CAG); potempa@uga.edu (JP)

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland , Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

PM, YT, HY, and JP conceived and designed the experiments. PM, YT, HY, MK, and FCG performed the experiments. PM, YT, HY, MS, MK, FCG, DMK, JT, LVC, KAN, CAG, and JP analyzed the data. MS, CAG, and JP contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. JP wrote the paper.